Excerpt from Text-Book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological; For Student and Practitioners of Medicine
The kind reception and favorable criticism given to the first edition of this work by medical educators and by practitioners appear to have justified the author's hope that it would supply a well-defined need.
The second edition, herewith presented, has been carefully revised and is much enlarged. The modifications are such as to make the work more especially adapted to the needs of two classes - medical students and medical practitioners. The mathematic and chemical formul? have been simplified and condensed or, in some cases, omitted, while those portions which deal with the application of physiology to clinical medicine have been much amplified.
The most notable additions to the work are the sub-chapters on Pathologic Physiology. It is becoming apparent to medical educators that to master normal physiology alone without applying its laws to the symptomatology of disease is to miss a large part of the service which physiology should render, just as the mastery of structural or morphologic pathology without an understanding of the modification which structural changes induce in the functions, implies the loss of a large part of the advantage which the study of pathology should give to the student and practitioner of medicine. The author has attempted to cover this most important field. It was thought wise to use somewhat different methods in presenting the pathologic physiology of different fields of physiology. The sub-chapters on Pathologic Physiology occur at the ends of the following chapters: Circulation and Blood, Respiration, Digestion, Metabolism and Excretion. In the chapters on the Special Senses and the Central Nervous System it seemed advantageous to discuss their pathologic physiology within the body of the chapter.
Without assistance from clinicians and pathologists the preparation of the sections on Pathologic Physiology would have been quite impossible.
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